How to sell a collection in a sensible way?

[knopflerbruce]

First: This is not a FS thread (I will make it when I'm ready, in the appropriate section) - this is just a meta discussion.

It's been 10+ years since I posted results on HWBot, and I'm getting a bit tired of moving with all the old CPUs I used for grinding my gold cups and such. Certain things have some emotional value, which I will keep in case I want to have some OCing fun later, but some platforms/CPUs I know for sure I will never touch again. So, if you have like 100-200 CPUs for a particular socket and each individual one isn't really all that valueable, what really is the best way to actually sell something like that? Just put up one giant lot per socket and let some other grinder decide what to do with spares? I never made a proper excel sheet with an overview of which CPUs were good or bad, as I used to know this by heart when I was active and I also got alot of stuff after I (practically speaking) quit, and those have just been stored since forever, so cherry picking isn't really an option, either.

It should be added that shipping costs from Norway to anywhere are nasty, at least the base fee for any trackable and insured package - so it would make no sense to buy like 10 CPUs and have them shipped with tracking (the exact formula in Euros for shipping to Europe is 24.34 base cost + 2.13 per kilo rounded up, so a 2.2kg package would have a shipping cost of 24.34+3*2.13=30.73 €). Most people would be better off just getting single CPUs or a small number from China then due to shipping alone. Unless one chooses unregistered letter mail.

If this thread belongs elsewhere, feel free to move it

[TerraRaptor]

No good way to sell big collection imho. And I don't really think hwbot will be a good place for that. CPUworld forums, ebay etc are better option to sell big lot with just some rare and valuable (by oc community) things - I saw many great colelctions to sell too long in here (like TaPaKaH, poparamiro, Obijuan83 etc). 

PS. Probably better option (if money is not a reason) is to lend your collection to some younger soul you know with "return on first request" option. Let someone else store it for free:)

 

[Mr.Scott]

Knut, your collection is legendary. I couldn't even imagine getting rid of it.